‘Game over’: Trump caught on tape in classified docs probe as ex lawyer predicts ‘jail time’: Report

We're Tracking New Evidence That's Heating Up Donald Trump and Raising Questions About a Possible Second Impeachment of the Former President There was his first impeachment at his arraignment in New York, but now there's news of this damning

tape

that focuses more on a different situation. jurisdiction in that federal investigation in Washington where Trump was

caught

on

tape

admitting key parts of a possible crime and stealing and hiding

classified

documents after leaving office, the tape is from after being in the White House in 2021 and that's bad for him based on what he appears to admit because prosecutors are already using it as they gather his testimony before the grand jury and it shows jurors how Trump himself admits and acknowledges on the tape that he had

classified

materials.

This is a complete advance in the evidence in this case. Now, some people might actually talk. Say: Okay, Ari, didn't we already know that Trump took those documents to Mar-A-Lago and the FEDS seized them in that search and returned them? Didn't we know all that? Yes, but in court to win a case like this. Prosecutors basically have to prove that one of the documents was classified, two that Trump intentionally took or ordered action to take the documents, and three that he intended to keep or use classified documents, so only analyzing this one is proven, it is for that the feds took them down and no court the way has overturned that two basically showed that he also outdid himself by admitting that he took all these documents, he hasn't exactly denied that part of the case, so three was the last hurdle he has have to prove Trump's conscious guilt over the classified documents that Hey, yeah, I have, yeah, I have this and that kind of thing is classified, so to be as direct as possible, when you see Donald Trump admit something like this in the tape acknowledging on the tape that it's well classified, so we're almost done here.

In fact, not legally, even if you are charged, you will hear people like me on your news stations saying that you are legally presumed innocent, but with respect to evidence, I say it colloquially in plain language, this completes the case for Special Prosecutor Smith, as long as the accounts on this tape are accurate and, as we do around here, we are confirming that the tape exists, they played it for the grand juries, several media outlets

report

ed it but we have not heard the tape, If we had the audio, of course, we would play it for you, but if this is accurate, each of those key points of the case against Donald Trump would be quite demonstrable;

That's the legal and other context for which this week you've heard just about everyone, from prosecutors to a former Trump defense attorney, say something to the The effect of this tape basically turns the case into a

game

. This is a great piece of evidence. For the special counsel, it guts the two defenses that Trump has presented. Those are out the door now because he admitted that he understood that there were restrictions on what he. You could use the documents, this is evidence, the gold is just the last nail and a coffin that already has a lot of nails,

game

over, I think they have their foot on your neck, there is no way they won't accuse you , that's a pretty broad assessment from different experts, including, as we showed you, Trump's own

lawyer

, and there are only a small number of people who would have known before this broke out in public that Trump was privately admitting that part that add evidence of criminal intent like me.

I'm talking to you just now, the group of people who would have already known about this would of course include the people in the room who heard it, such as Trump's aides, one of whom is

report

edly the person who was asked about this tape that he made during his grand jury appearance, then there are the better

lawyer

s, they will be more familiar with these things, they have attorney-client privilege, they have to deal with the grand jury evidence and some of Trump's lawyers even ended up in the unusual position of testifying before the grand jury. themselves and that is where this tape bomb that has been in the news this week overlaps with another event: the clashes and fights between Trump's lawyers who are going public and Trump's top lawyer who recently resigned, reports in several media outlets. that Trump's lawyers are so worried about one of their leaders.

You may have heard of Boris Epstein threatening a group resignation they called a murder-suicide pact if a lawyer was fired while pushing for some changes to what was happening now. For one thing, Trump has had a lot of problems with lawyers before lawyers became. Witnesses like Michael Cohen's lawyers became public critics like a statement we just aired tonight from Ty Cobb, so to be precise, it wouldn't be true to say that every

time

Trump has a problem with a lawyer he gets impeached. or something similar that he had during the The Mueller investigation in that case did not legally take him down or lead to an impeachment trial and he had two other impeachments in addition to that set of facts, but this

time

these lawyers in the case of this document are doing things that seem to be preparing for something. otherwise, something worse, an accusation.

I say that not as a prediction nor as something to look forward to, but simply as an analysis of these facts as they come together, and in fact, it's quite interesting now that we know a little more about the tremendous heat in this case because we know that already one recently resigned, we know that two of them requested a meeting with the attorney general himself and with all the documents that were discovered, as I said, proven according to the government to be classified, which was seen as a kind of panic movement. or a last-ditch effort to perhaps try to delay, stop or prevent an impending indictment.

We also know that several lawyers are trying to figure out how to make it so that this novel Trump defense can secretly and automatically magically declassify any document if he has the authority to do so. declassify you are not tied to any bureaucratic process you would need to tell someone in the bureaucracy that you have done it, so who did he tell that he did it? We're not trying to get League to leak our case now that the defense sounds weak for a number. reasons why it is unprecedented, it also shows something that I have been emphasizing with you as we discuss these facts tonight.

It shows that the lawyers probably figured it out because they knew what we're learning in public before and they knew how bad it was. the evidence was earlier and then they had to develop other types of arguments that they probably discovered that they have to focus on claiming that the documents are not classified and are not contraband because they have no other defenses that they cannot prove. There were no documents at the scene. I just showed you a few on the screen. They can't try to argue it with some honest misunderstanding that Trump didn't knowingly try to take them because he himself has been admitting it and that's why so many legal experts.

They've focused on the one thing they've been saying, but they look at this kind of secret declassification defense. These statements, frankly, are very, very damaging to him. He checks his privilege or it will take on a whole new meaning with this guy and these are clearly classified documents. They are marked as classified, they belong to the US government thinking in their head to declassify them, that would be an obscenely reckless way to handle declassification because no one else would know that it doesn't change the fundamental argument, the other argument that these documents do not they are yours.

Yeah, I mean, to be honest, this is one of those moments we're talking about here. Trump's lawyers have been making this extreme, novel set of arguments and that extremism is becoming a little more understandable now that we're learning about all the damning evidence they would have already known about the feds have the docks they have the witnesses they have the confessions themselves Trump's public statements and that's why Trump's lawyers are left in this corner they can't deny the act or argue that Trump was out of the loop like someone who just argues hey, I let the movers pack the U-Haul.

I didn't realize what they loaded. It's a big house, that's the kind of argument you can make if the U-Haul is full of contraband or stolen. material and you say, hey, I didn't physically package it, I hired some people, well, there's no defense left for U-Haul when Donald Trump admits to taking the stuff, so the lawyers are now doing something that, again, is really interesting like minimum. but it can also be very relevant if it's a federal trial, they're doing something that lawyers do but that you only do as a sort of last resort, they have to argue that even if the government did in fact classify these documents and consider them stolen and even if Trump said on the tape that they were classified, which is part of what I just showed you tonight and why the tape is so damning, now the lawyers have to make this kind of Cheshire Cat defense that Yes, the government, which is the authority, says classified, yes.

Trump said he was ranked, but maybe they just magically weren't ranked. This is a plot that goes deep into Alice in Wonderland territory. I mean, this is like you have to disagree with the entire Governing Authority and the President and your own client, who could become a defendant, as he is currently in New York, and say, "I know you heard this and the other", but just listen to the cat smiling and go into that kind of soft psychological or psychedelic hypnosis and pretend that everything is upside down. You can not. Even to say you believe in Trump you have to say you don't believe in Trump because when he said and acknowledged on the tape that it was classified he was also wrong because he had forgotten or didn't realize or didn't remember that magically anything can be declassified without even saying it, it's a kind of defense for the way they have the right to do it, but how much time would you have to spend on Alice in Wonderland or the things people use there to find anything believable?

That is the legal question raised here. It has a public perception of political components, but it is fundamentally how all legal issues are supposed to be about truth and foreign evidence, thank you.